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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
11
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Mr and Mrs Harris and daughter of Loyd called. The Muza Hawkins Blanchard Pearson sisters are at home as schools close. Geo Decker bought the family meat market. Mrs Kilbourn hosts her brother and Providence guest. Carol Butman runs a millinery ale with hat discounts. A cemetery bee is planned with dinner and cups for attendees.
Rev. O. Martinson remains on the sick list though improved. Mrs. Joe Henderson entertains her father George Hickok and sister Mrs. Adolph Peterson plus four Curtiss Wis children. Miss Tressie Mortimer’s birthday surprise included refreshments and gifts. Various neighbors visit relatives, travel to Sparta and Madison, with Prohibition convention attendance noted.
Commencement exercises were held at the M E church last Friday evening. Misses Francis Reynolds Althea Adams Emma Lafountain Florence Murray and Chester Sarrington and Gordon Steele received diplomas as Rev Moon gave remarks. Leslie Sarrington presented diplomas. Teachers Miss Lawson Baraboo and Miss Borchers La Valle supervised the event.
About forty residents attended the Dist No 7 school picnic at the lake shore. They discussed consolidating country schools as ten pupils remain. Mrs John Niles urged voters to attend the school meeting to decide on sending children to a graded school. Miss Emma Zastrow’s teaching is praised and may be retained for another year. F W Zantow fell ill with stomach trouble. Mr and Mrs C H Holt visited A L Travis family. Mrs B A Clarke visits her brother W P Bassett. Rumor says the Bachelors club VP plans a June wedding.
Advertising copy touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for removing blackheads softening skin cleansing the blood brightening eyes and improving the complexion. Claims appeal to women and promise visible results with a note to try it with tea or pills priced at 35 cents from J. B. Donovan.
The column lists movers and visitors: White family from Sextonville living in J Smith’s vacated house. Mrs H P Acker in Baraboo for her daughter Gladys graduation. Mrs Fiora Crown and children visiting EK H Gardner’s family from Deer River Minnesota. Mrs Julius Fix of Chicago and others visiting Mrs H E Paddock. June birth announced for Mr and Mrs J R Alarka. several residents travel to Portland Minneapolis Milwaukee and attend weddings and family events. school closes and teachers depart. numerous trips to Wonewoce Watertown Reedsburg Minneapolis and final mentions of Searle of Ohio and Percy Cuff from Minneapolis.
Clarence Bretsch and family of Baraboo visited W. A. Powers in Prairie Du Sac and toured the big dam. An advertisement promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as an internal cleanser for the stomach bowels and liver, priced 35 cents, Tea or Tabs, by J. B. Donovan.
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